Separate Printing Mantissa and Exponent of a Floating Point

[Justin Whear via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:47:13 +0000, Nordlöw wrote:

> Is there a way to separately stringify/print the mantissa and exponent
> of a floating point?
> 
> I want this in my pretty-printing module to produce something like
> 
> 1.2 \cdot 10^3
> 
> instead of
> 
> 1.2e3
> 
> I could of course always split on the e but that is kind of non-elegant,
> I believe.

If you're writing your own pretty-printer, you can extract those pieces 
using FloatRep[1] and print them however you like.

1. http://dlang.org/phobos/std_bitmanip.html#.FloatRep